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In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly. Nor wholly overcome, nor wholly yield. Dryden.

ntirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc.; as, to abolish slavery, to abolish folly.

o become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

In an absolute, independent, or unconditional manner; wholly; positively.

To engross or engage wholly; to occupy fully; as, absorbed in study or the pursuit of wealth.

In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.

To draw off in respect to interest or attention; as, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.

All; wholly; completely; as, almighty,almost. (b) Etym: [L. ad.]

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

Wholly; completely; altogether; entirely; quite; very; as, all bedewed; my friend is all for amusement. "And cheeks all pale." Byron.

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out…

Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.

ng masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212º Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery. Dana.

A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava.

ce of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.

e, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.

t governed by any fixed rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment. It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. Jer. Taylor. Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is the most arbitrary of all things. Landor.

ng of any object, by effort, or in natural course; as, our arrival at this conclusion was wholly unexpected.